| Derelict Daisy | 1) Queer by William S. Burroughs 2) 10 Things Women Do To Mess Up Their Lives by Laura Schlessinger 3) The Bible by Various Artists (as sung by The Gideons) 4) Painful Rectal Itch by Osama bin Laden 5) Mad Love by Andre Breton |
| Misti | Well, that's a tough list to follow (!!!) but I'll try. 1) *Slaughterhouse Five* by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 2) *Nine Stories* by J.D. Salinger 3) *The Color Purple* by Alice Walker 4) *For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Was Enuf* by Ntozake Shange 5) *Love Signs* by Linda Goodman |
| Rhetoric | 1. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs 2. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton 3. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 4. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl 5. A Natural History of Rape (Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion) by Thornhill and Palmer |
| ~*Truelies*~ | 1) Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen 2) The Color Purple - Alice Walker 3) The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 4) A Child Called 'It' - Dave Pelzer 5) The First Lady Chatterley - D.H. Lawrence |
| jackryhme | the Hobbit anything by David Eddings Zelazny Dr sues Hinelien |
| Kirk | * Daniel Dennett (especially Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea) * Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being) * Terry Pratchett (Discworld Series) * Douglas Adams (So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, and the rest) * Garrison Keillor (especially Book of Guys, but everything else as well) Runners Up: Jason Lutes--Jar of Fools (see October 1998 review), Jack Gilbert--The Great Fires (September 1997 review), Douglas Hofstadter--Godel, Escher, Bach |
| deevaa | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fanny Flag The ecstatic moment - a collection or erotic adventures (I collect erotica) Red Leaves by Paulina Simmons. anything by Patricia Cornwell (the earlier the better), Mary Higgins Clark or Joanna Harris ... oh and Judith Krantz for some girlie drama! (all woman authors?!) |
| Jubal29717 | Pat Conroy: I love his portrayal of family relationships and how they impact us as adults as well as his beautiful and powerful descriptions of the REAL South Carolina beaches and life on the coast vs. the tourist junk Jenkins/LeHaye (the "Left Behind" series-a little hokey in places but rather thought provoking) Jan Karon:(the "Mitford" series)...for my Anglican fix) John Grisham:because I once aspired to be an attorney Susan Howitch: more Anglican fix Poetry: Sylvia Plath (I am glad someone else likes her...high octane stuff for sure)! Keats, Elizabeth Barret Browning |
| Echolocation | Next to impossible to limit it to 5 if you're a bibliophile (some might say "bibliomaniac") like myself, but here's my best effort: Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged. I like all her writings but this one is a consummation of everything she has to say. Three cheers for Rational Selfishness!! Guy Gavriel Kay - the Fionavar trilogy (starts w/The Summer Tree). Takes all the myths you thought you knew, ties them up in a big bundle with amazing characters and writing of such vivid power it should be registered with the FCC. JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings trilogy. A classic that demands rereading about once every three years. Anita Brookner - any of her books (Hotel du Lac is a good start). British writer who excels at painting precise pictures of solitary people; like medieval miniatures they're glowing and perfect in every tiny detail. Start with Hotel du Lac and go on from there. Anything by Starhawk, but particularly Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics; and Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority and Mystery. Her writings are about (among other things) linking an earth-based spirituality to real actions to change the world. |
| TJ Holland | Timothy Miller ~ How to Want What You Have Ann Rule ~ all of her true crime files cases Kahil Gibran ~ The Prophet Sylvia Plath ~ most of her work, mostly "Daddy" TONS of other writers...as long as I FEEL something I don't care WHO they are! |
| h. | 1. J.R.R. Tolkien "Lord of the Rings" trilogy 2. Arthur C Clarke "Rama" the whole series 3. Milan Kundera "the unberable lightness of being" 4. Irvin D. Yalom "When Nietsche Wept" 5. Douglas Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and and and....(I still miss her...) |
| chris | Desert Solitaire (Edward Abbey) On the Road (Jack Kerouac) Turtle Island (Gary Snyder) A Sand County Almanac (Aldo Leopold) King James Bible (God) |
| Preciousprncss | 1. Flowers in the Attic, by VC Andrews 2. Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell 3. Delores Claiborne, by Stephen King 4. Rose Madder, by Stephen King 5. The Canturbury Tales, by Geofrey Chaucer |
| Violet | 1) The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve 2) The weight of water - Anita Shreve 3) The Shipping News- E.Annie Proulx 4) The Complete Works of Shakespeare 5) A night without armor- Jewel Kilcher |
| scqueen | 'The Sound of Waves' Yukio Mishima 'The Red Tent' Anita Diamant, Sandra Gulland's trilogy on the life of Josephine Bonaparte, 'Memoirs of a Geisha' Arthur Golden The Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling all by Wally Lamb, Rebecca Wells, Brett Lott, Billie Letts, Pat Conroy... AND...I just finished 'The Power of One' by Bryce Courtenay. All is can say is WOW!! |
| kevin urenda | Joan Didion (I even like her novels) Marge Piercy (I have only read one of HER novels, but her poetry is unbelievable) William Bronk (a poet) Robert Heinlein (I grok that!) Stephen Ambrose (recorder for a special generation of American heroes) |
| sweetness | 1. A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving 2. The Cathcher in the Rye by Salinger 3. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 4. November of the Heart by Lavyrle Spencer 5. Any collection of quotes Various |
| Galadrial | Heinlein---special reads...Stranger in a Strange Land, Friday, Number of the Beast, and Lazarus Long...oh...and Glory Road. Marion Zimmer Bradley---Anything Darkover, Lynthande, Avalon, Cassandra, (I would read her LAUNDRY LIST!) (we lost her this year. RITA MAE BROWN! She started with a book called Rubyfruit Jungle---but the lady is brilliant, and diverse. Six of One and Bingo are must reads if you have a sister...Southern Discomfort, High Hearts, and anything she wrote with her cat, Sneaky Pie. Anne Mc Caffrey...Harper Hall Series, and the original six Dragon/Pern books...don't forget Nerilka's Tale! And Thomas Perry wrote an amazing book called Vanishing Act. I love Jeffrey Deaver as well...I NEVER can guess his endings...so I cheated...Sue me! |
| Just Some Girl | 1.) The Grass Harp- Truman Capote 2.) This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.) Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass-Lewis Carroll 4.) Requiem for a Dream- Selby Hubert, Jr. 5.) The Collected Shorter Poems- Kenneth Rexroth |
| flash | Authors: Shakespeare Gabriel Garcia Marquez Julio Cortazar Robert A. Heinlein Edgar Allen Poe |
| slug | The Ordinary Princess - M.M. Kaye the Harry Potter series anything by Ayn Rand and I've just read the original Winnie-The-Pooh, so that's fresh on my mind - and REALLY good. definitely a favorite tie:Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series (Laurell K. Hamilton) and Stephanie Plum, Bounty Hunter series by Janet Evanovich (sp?) |